Department of Otolaryngology

Our Specialists

Timothy D. Doerr, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology

Specialty Areas

• Facial Plastic Surgery
• Maxillofacial Trauma
• Cosmetic Surgery
• Skull Base Surgery
• Skin Cancer Reconstruction

Education and Training

• B.S., University of Dayton
• M.D., Wayne State University School of Medicine
• Resident, Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center, 1993-1998
• Research Fellow, Microcirculation Laboratory, Wayne State University, 1996
• Fellow, Head and Neck Surgery, Wayne State University, 1998-1999
• Fellow, Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Michigan, 1999-2000

Faculty Appointments

• Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Wayne State University, 1998-1999
  
  
• Assistant Professor, Division of Otolaryngology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2000
  
  
• Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2004

Grants

• American Otological Society, "Regulatory Mechanisms of Vestibular Blood Flow"
  
  
• Matthew Vogel Research Fund University of Michigan "Immunohistochemical Investigation of Skull Base Malignancies"
  
  
• American Geriatrics Society / John A. Hartford Foundation Geriatrics Education for Specialty Residents Program "Geriatric Otolaryngology"

Professional Societies

• American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
• American Rhinological Society
• American Cleft Palate - Craniofacial Association
• American Medical Association
• Association for Research in Otolaryngology
• Society of University Otolaryngologists
• New York State Society of Otolaryngology
• AO/ASIF Maxillofacial Faculty

Publications

• Arden RA, Smith DS, Salley JS, Sakr WA, Doerr TD. Survival of composite chondrocutaneous grafts by vessel implantation: a study in the rabbit ear model. The Laryngoscope. 1995; 105:12.
  
  
• Doerr TD, Prasad AS, Marks SC, Beck FW, Shamsa FH, Penny HS, Mathog RH. Zinc deficiency in head and neck cancer patients. Journal of the American College of Nutrition. 1997; 16:418-22.
  
  
• Doerr TD, Marunick M. The timing of edentulation and extractions in the management or oropharyngeal and oral cavity malignancies. Head and Neck. 1997; 19:426-30.
  
  
• Doerr TD, Shibuya TY, Marks SC. Squamous cell carcinoma of the supraglottic larynx in a patient with Fanconi's anemia. Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. 1998; 118:523-25.
  
  
• Prasad AS, Beck FW, Doerr TD, Shamsa FH, Penny HS, Marks SC, Kaplan J, Kucuk O, Mathog RH. Nutritional and zinc status of head and neck cancer patients: an interpretive review. Journal of the American College of Nutrition. 1998; 17:409-18.
  
  
• Doerr TD, Marks SC, Shamsa FH, Mathog RH, Prasad AS. Zinc and nutritional status and clinical outcomes in head and neck cancer. Nutrition. 1998; 14:489-95.
  
  
• Doerr TD, Dziadziola JK, Komjathy DA, Burgio DL, Quirk WS. The effects of flunarizine and pentoxifylline on vestibular blood flow in the guinea pig. European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology. 1998; 255(8):385-90.
  
  
• Shibuya TY, Doerr TD, Mathog RH, Burgio DL, Meleca RJ, Yoo GH, Guthikonda M. Functional outcomes of the retromaxillary-infratemporal fossa dissection for advanced head and neck/skull base lesions. Skull Base Surgery. 2000; 10(3):109-117.
  
  
• Doerr TD, Blakley BW, Komjathy DA, Quirk WS. Local vestibular blood flow and systemic vascular responses to natural vestibular stimulation in the Mongolian gerbil. Otology-Neurotology. 2001; 125:274-76.
  
  
• Wein RO, Norante JD, Doerr TD. Hashimoto's Thyroiditis within ectopic thyroid gland mimicking the presentation of thyroglossal duct cyst. Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. 2001; 125:274-76.
  
  
• Wein RO, Popat SR, Dutcher PO, Doerr TD. Extramedullary plasmacytoma of the skull base. Skull Base. 2002; 12:77-86.
  
  
• Doerr TD, Marentette LJ, Flint A, Elner V. Urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor expression in adenoid cystic carcinoma of the skull base. Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. 2003; 129:215-18.
  
  
• Leake D, Doerr TD, Scott G. Urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor expression in keloids and normal scar. Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. 2003; 129: 1334-1338.
  
  
• Bak M, Doerr TD. Craniomaxilofacial fractures during recreational baseball and softball. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 2004.

Book Chapters

• "Nasal Fractures," Doerr TD, Arden RL, Mathog RH. Cummings CW, Frederickson JM, Harker LA, Krause CJ, Richardson MA, Schuller DE, eds: Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery 3rd Edition: St. Louis, MO: Mosby - Year Book Inc., 1998.
  
  

• "Head and Neck Trauma," Pasha R, Doerr TD, Mathog RH. Pasha R Ed: Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery: Clinical Reference Guide. San Diego, CA: Singular - Thompson Learning, 2001.
  
  

• "Le Fort Fractures," Doerr TD, Mathog RH. Papel, Nachlas, Holt, Frodel, Sykes, Larrabee, Park, Toriumi, Eds. Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2nd Edition, 2002.

Contact

Dr. Timothy Doerr
2365 S. Clinton Ave. Suite 200
Rochester, NY 14618
Phone: 585-758-5700
Fax: 585-758-1299
Email: timothy_doerr@urmc.rochester.edu